Paris landlords still charging illegally high rents

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Many Paris landlords are charging far too much rent for their flats, according to a study published on Tuesday. Some Parisians are paying hundreds of euros too much for their pokey flats.

Even though a rent-capping law was rolled out last year, Parisians still getting stung by greedy landlords - and often.

New figures courtesy of the CLCV housing association, which looked at 800 online apartment ads, have revealed that many landlords and even agencies are still advertising their properties at illegally high rent prices.

The survey looked at adverts on eight of the most popular home renting websites: seloger.com, fnaim.fr, leboncoin.fr, pap.fr, nexity.fr, foncia.com, orpi.com and century21.fr.

The apartments were a split between furnished and unfurnished flats that were either offered privately or through an agency.

And as it turns out, it's the landlords advertising independently that are most likely to be ripping you off.